The News Review:
- The Way You Look at Feist So She Appears to You
- Satellite party
- utlook’s bright for Bad Weather California
- Tennessee’s Bonnaroo fest opens amid summer festival revival
- Fall ut Boy
- Australia’s great rock moments
The Way You Look at Feist So She Appears to You
NPR – Jun 16, 2007
Her previous album Let It Die helped solidify her as a darling of the indie-rock scene but her major label debut is an album that both the critics and the broader public seem to love. Coming from a history of punk rock and screamy vocals Leslie Feist put her voice to rest and picked up a guitar to fill the void. She put her time in bands such as By Divine Right and collaborated with her boundary-pushing roommate Peaches and slowly began to regain her voice. n the cusp of recording Let It Die Feist joined the Canadian indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene for their wildly successful You Forgot It in People. Recorded partly in France The Reminder rings in a sound that is altogether warming joyful and becoming. Her folk- and jazz-tinged vocal affections garner comparisons to fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell.
Satellite party
NEWS.com.au – Jun 16, 2007
The ex-Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros frontman can sound a little daffy at times but there’s no questioning that he gets things done. Here’s the madness: A bunch of people called the Solutionists throw a pyjama party on a satellite looking down at the fragile Earth while the benevolent spirit of Doors singer Jim Morrison watches. And here’s the method: Through his music and global events Farrell is encouraging us to save the world by reducing carbon emissions. And he’s backed by a group of hands-on businessmen environmentalists and philanthropists. It’s a fine line to tread and Farrell is one of only a few people in the music world who can pull it off without seeming ridiculous. His musical pedigree as an alternative-rock pioneer enables him to rope in people such as Red Hot Chili Pepper mates Flea and John Frusciante former New rder bassist Peter Hook and Black Eyed Pea turned solo star Fergie to create the crazy melange of his new outfit Satellite Party. But his business and organisational nous in founding the generation-defining Lollapalooza festival – as well as lending his name time and money to causes such as freeing slaves in the Sudan and the environmental campaign Global Cool – give the impression he might actually be able to make a difference… I don’t know if the Doors ever had a 30-piece orchestra accompanying them or electronic beats but I took the risk to add it to the song because I felt that I would love to see Jim Morrison dressed with new clothing and that would add to the amazement of the track. ” Farrell approaches the task of saving the world one party at a time and with the zeal of a man born again. The former drug-addled hard-living hell raiser was part of the punk revolution which he considers the “last great art movement”. And as a younger man he embraced its no-future ideology with wild abandon. “I started from a place where I was debauched and suicidal and hating myself” he says. “I didn’t go out I was a misanthrope and I didn’t want to contribute to the world and I didn’t have any hope for the world. I was hopeless and I was lecherous.
utlook’s bright for Bad Weather California
Denver Post – Jun 16, 2007
“My mom hates that although they’re not always about death in a bad macabre way. They’re about the afterlife too – or they’re weird life-is- death stuff the kind of thing you talk about with your friends all night. ” Adolf grew up in Grand Junction eventually playing in punk and indie bands in high school. He was inspired by indie heroes such as Sebadoh and Sonic Youth “because I realized they weren’t rock stars. The were just normal dudes. ” But outside of playing music with his friends it took Adolf a while to fully realize his own potential. “I never had the idea I could be my own entity that I could do my own thing” he said… He was inspired by indie heroes such as Sebadoh and Sonic Youth “because I realized they weren’t rock stars. The were just normal dudes. ” But outside of playing music with his friends it took Adolf a while to fully realize his own potential. “I never had the idea I could be my own entity that I could do my own thing” he said. But after a move to San Diego that acquainted him with Gabe Saucedo of Red Pony Clock Adolf quickly learned from that collective of musicians that he could be his own entity. Adolf did a few do-it-yourself releases before releasing his most recent full-length CD “Fear Not My Brothers Fear Not My Sisters” on Happy Happy Birthday to Me a popular indie pop label out of Athens Ga. “That’s the only one I’m proud of” Adolf said quietly of his last release.
Tennessee’s Bonnaroo fest opens amid summer festival revival
CKNW – Jun 16, 2007
newsfeed { padding: 5px 0 5px 0; margin: 0; } at 16:32 on June 11 2008 EDT. Tennessee’s Bonnaroo fest opens amid summer festival revival Jake Coyle THE ASSCIATED PRESS. Bonnaroo arguably the country’s biggest music festival kicks off Thursday with a slate headlined by Pearl Jam Metallica Kanye West and Chris Rock. Just 10 years ago after the disastrous 1999 Woodstock and the temporary petering out of Lollapalooza festivals appeared dead. But in recent years they’ve emerged as one of the music industry’s few cash cows in an otherwise tumultuous environment… Lollapalooza will feature Radiohead Rage Against the Machine and West; Austin City Limits will include Beck Foo Fighters Gnarls Barkley and David Byrne. That still leaves the third-annual Pitchfork Music Festival put on by the influential website; the first All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey (created by Coachella producer Goldenvoice); Seattle’s decades-old Bumbershoot; the launch of Michigan’s jam band-centric Rothbury Music Festival; the sponsored Virgin Festival in Baltimore; and San Francisco’s new utside Lands Festival. There are many more too including the traveling Warped Tour featuring mainly punk acts and the 10-city Rock the Bells hip-hop tour. lder festivals are also adjusting to the new landscape. In its 49th year Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival will be produced by the Festival Network which has diversified the historic Newport’s lineup. Jimmy Buffett Trey Anastasio the Black Crowes and Cat Power will play where Bob Dylan famously plugged in his electric guitar in 1965. Jay Sweet one of three producers of the Newport says this is now “a festival country.
Fall ut Boy
abc.net.au – Jun 16, 2007
Fame has never been the driving force behind the music for the band and all the recent success hasn’t quite sunk in yet. “I don’t think of music as a career” Wentz says “until certain things jar it for you. ” When pressed for an example he cites the thousands of screaming fans who greet him when he gets on stage. Self-described nerds they’d still be working just as hard on their music whether they were playing for an audience of 5 thousand or an audience of 5. “The more you try to please everybody the less you end up pleasing anybody” says Patrick Vaughn Stump Fall ut Boy lead singer and guitarist… Then life seems almost enchanted after all. “The first single “This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arms Race” is a tongue-in-cheek look at “the way we are so addicted and obsessed with new arts cultures and loves” Wentz says. The chorus is a frenetic punk-rock double time with thumping verses that beckon you to stomp your feet which Wentz describes as “a bit of ’70s funk mixed with Take This to Your Grave ” the band’s 2003 LP. fficially debuted at the American Music Awards the song instantly climbed the Billboard Pop 100 airplay charts shortly after its debut. This album is a departure from the band’s previous work marking Cork Tree producer Neal Avron’s return along with smash hit making R&B producer Babyface for the first time. “We love his approach to melody” Wentz says on working with Babyface. “Patrick will sing with a greater range and more soul in our new songs and we wanted to find someone to drive that.
Australia’s great rock moments
NEWS.com.au – Jun 16, 2007
"Then there are all those Countdown hits — John Paul Young William Shakespeare Cheetah and even their own band Flash and the Pan — whatever you think of those songs they defined an era. ” The list was compiled by a panel of local music industry identities rock historians and writers. Seminal TV music show Countdown switching to colour in March 1975 made No. "Countdown’s impact on the industry can’t be denied” Phillips said. "It was huge not just for local acts but for assisting Madonna and ABBA to break worldwide… "That gave them five No. 1 albums in a row which no other Australian act has done which is incredible for a band who started off as 15-year-olds. ” Midnight il’s controversial anti-Howard appearance in `Sorry’ T-shirts at the 2000 Sydney lympics and Brisbane band The Saints scoring arguably the first punk single with I’m Stranded also made the Top 10. The magazine with the Top 50 is available from Monday. Top 10 Aussie rock moments 1. When George Young bumps into the newly arrived Harry Vanda in a migrant hostel in 1964 in Villawood Sydney. The pair go on to create the Easybeats and become the most successful songwriting and production team in Australian history 2.